Re: partial branch?

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On Tuesday 05 November 2002 19:19, Brian Olson wrote:
> Is it currently possible to make a partial branch?

I haven't actually tried this, but what about using svn:externals to load
other parts of the same repository into the working directory?

$ svn cp http://server/trunk http://server/branch/foo
$ svn switch http://server/branch/foo
$ ls
bar/ baz/
$ svn rm baz
$ svn pset svn:externals "baz http://server/trunk/baz" .
$ svn ci
$ svn up

Now ./bar/ will be local to the branch, and ./baz/ will be a "soft link" to
the real /trunk/baz/ directory. Any commits to ./baz/ will affect
/trunk/baz/, and commits to ./bar/ will affect /branch/foo/bar/. Make sense?

Note that svn:externals only affects the working copy, so for URL-based
operations to ./baz/ you will have to use /trunk/baz/, not /branch/foo/baz/.
Outside of the working copy, /branch/foo/baz/ won't exist (it was deleted).

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Peter Davis
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Received on Wed Nov 6 05:02:53 2002